Classical Archaeology, Paperback - ***

The fully revised second edition of this successful volume includes updates on the latest archaeological research in all chapters, and two new essa...

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Maya kings who failed to ensure the prosperity of their kingdoms were subject to various forms of termination, including the ritual defacing and de...

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This collection of fourteen essays explores how the dominant media of our time - film and television - have engaged with the golden age as formulat...

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DescriptionThe type of monumental tomb that developed in Macedonia in the late Classical period was undoubtedly the most impressive of all the Gree...

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The Tudor dynasty's rise and fall and rise again in the years before the Battle of Bosworth

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This comprehensive, readable survey of the Classical past is ambitious in scope: it ranges from the Aegean world of the second millenium BC to Augu...

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In 2006, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens celebrates seventy five years of archaeological work in the Athenian Agora, the civic c...

Thoroughly updated and revised, the second edition of this successful and widely praised textbook offers an account of the 'classical' period of Gr...

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The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrate...

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Written for the general visitor, the Athenian Agora Museum Guide is a companion to the 2010 edition of the Athenian Agora Site Guide and leads the ...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Adrienne MayorIllustration(s): 49 b/w illus. 1 map.Number of pages: 448Publication date: 2022Dimens...

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Based on records from Nikolaos Balanos' dismantling and reerection of the temple of Athena Nike on the Athenian Acropolis (between 1935 and 1939), ...

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